Dolittle: Are you charged a fee for that? And how do I go about arranging that? PayPal have made it very difficult to contact them. You have to go through a silly way and only certain questions gets you through to them.

Dolittle: mine too - when i paid for the red code - the payment was sent and i got the notification from BK to my message box - before i even came back to the site from PayPal...

crosseyed: My Pay Pal account is set up on my debit card so the payment goes to Fencer right away. It's a good way to have it without any delays.

Jim Dandy: I wish I could help a few more people, but I am on low income myself so have to limit it.

Eriisa: I am not sure but it must be something like that. The rules have change and they have moved their head office.

Bernice: Czech Rep is now part of the EU, which has adopted the VAT - so yes, they do that that now.

Little more info about VAT - since for myself in the US, don't know much about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_added_tax

crosseyed: That's a classy gesture,I only found out about the sponsorship program a few weeks ago.

crosseyed: I was just curious since I deal with Paypal at lot as an eBay seller. Did your payment go as an e-check?

Bernice: I don't want to keep on about this since Fencer has been good enough and changed his mind. Unfortuately for me the money did not get into Fencers account still 01/01/08 09.43.00. So I did technically miss the deadline. But since I had been in touch with Fencer several time before the deadline I was dissappointed that he did not give me the bonus as he was aware that the payment was pending.
Thank you for your input. And I am so grateful that Fencer changed his mind. I intend to give the bonus to someone who cannot afford membership and that was why I was so upset.

Fencer: Thank you Fencer for changing your mind and making an exception. I actually took advantage of the deal on the 18th December which you would see in my PayPal account. Unfortuately PayPal has changed it rules and I was not aware that the transaction is not completed before 7 to 9 days. In the past the money was taken immediately. I now know that I either have to put money into my PayPal account or allow for the time period. It was just bad luck for me that that there were 2 weekends and the Christmas holiday that held things up.
Once again thank you.

Bernice: It's a silly thing for those who still use slow payment methods. The majority of orders is paid by online services (PayPal, MoneyBookers) which, of course, work continuously and instantly, no matter whether there is a holiday or not.

Fencer: under your own words it is a silly thing to do (not a wise decision), so why have it (the promotion)going over this holiday period.

Thank god you have made an exception, shows there is a heart in there somewhere :)

Do you have to make a return to YOUR Govt once a month or whereever to return to them the VAT collected from customers of yours?

I know that VAT has been in the UK, NZ, and Aust for many years now (maybe called something different) but didnt realize that the Czech Rep. also have that system.

Can someone advise me on this....

Over here, if someone from another country uses our services there isnt any Vat, GST or whatever paid.....for instance, I contract to a Solicitor and if we do work for a client in the UK he isnt required to pay our GST....I would have thought that would have been practically universal... The USA has a similar situation I think, but I do stand to be corrected/.

coan.net: Taxes, man, taxes! The European Union is uncompromising about that. Starting 1st February, I will have to add a VAT to all membership fees and for everyone. It won't be too much (15 or 19%) but since some people are very sensitive to any kind of a raise, they had a good chance to overcome it with a help of the bonus codes.

Dolittle: The rules are very specific about that and say that it's the date of receiving the money which counts, not the date of sending. A month is a very long period for everyone to make it before the deadline and if someone makes a bank transfer on 21st December, it is not a wise decision because banks are usually slow by the end of the year.
I have decided to make an exception and give crosseyed the bonus but I would like to point out that nothing like that will be done again in the future. The rules should be the same to everyone.

Bernice: The BrainKing Blog is available to everyone ( http://brainking.info/ ), where it is mentioned in the most recent article that "...we plan to make important changes to our policy of membership fees..."

Even though he did not say raise prices, if I were to guess - that is how I take it - but again, that is just my guess. Guess we will find out more sometime in the next month.

Jamie (Proud2bAmerican) is saying that you are going to raise the prices.......is this correct, and how do we all become privvy to your confidances?

Dolittle: yes exactly....scan/copy her statement and send to Fencer....surely he would have the decency to honor it.....but then.....as I said,money does strange things to people

Bernice: think it was debited out of her account on the 21st....that was 10 days before the deadline so she should get the 100% on the membership.

crosseyed: ask Fencer for your money back......and I would have thought that if you have proof that it came out of your account before midnight on the 31st he would honor the deal, and as you have said you contacted him about it, but.......money makes people do strange things

I thought I was lucky to get the red dot colour code which was 100% bonus. So I took advantage of the offer on 18th December. When it did not show up in my profile the next day I contacted Fencer. I also contacted him when I saw that the money had been taken out of my account on the 21st December. He told me that the money was not his account yet.
Can you believe this, it was paid into his account today and I missed out on the 100% red dot code deal.
I think he should honour the deal since he knew about it before the deadline.
Also was not my fault that the christmas holiday and two weekends held things up. So be warned that PayPal takes too long to complete transactions. It states in Paypal that it could take 7 to 9 days to complete a transaction. You need to allow 2/3 weeks for payments it to be completed. PayPal sucks.

Ewe: It looks like snow on his head to me and on the castle.

Jim Dandy: I didnt see the dragon with the santa hat on & Im in castle mode

Fencer, finished my Interview, do you or Paulo have to release it ??

OH, and no editing it lol

redfrog: You've gotta love the Santa hat our dragon is wearing,a very nice touch

redfrog:i'm hooked up exactly the same way, and i also don't have the problems that are stated here.

Andersp: I use Qwest (local phone company) DSL through the wireless on my laptop - i have heard others using wireless connections dont seem to have the issues that are so common here... im no where near the technical genius required to determine how that could impact anything - but maybe it does...

TarantinoFan:

Vikings: Now I'm scared! Is he going to unleash h*ll on this site? Or am I just freaking out because my son got Gremlins 1 and 2 for christmas and has been watching them over and over for the past couple of days? Hehehehe.

TarantinoFan: I believe they are, but thats just what I read into his post

Vikings: So are the pictures of the little devils supposed to be some clue? I could say a few things about where those blighters live and this site in the same sentence but I would only get in trouble!

you guys should read a little closer to understand what Fencer is going to launch

Bernice:

I found this picture of me only I hope when he installed me in the tower he gave me a instead of the club! Hehehe

TarantinoFan: I thought IT was his clone

TarantinoFan: of course she does LOL.......she wouldnt look like me or she TOO would be breathing fire HAHAHAHAHA

Bernice: Dang does that mean I have to log out and wait for that silly beast to stretch my page again and blow a few fireballs to see if there is really is a princess. I wonder if she looks just like me???? LOL

Fencer:already 2008? we are already 9 1/4 hours into 2008

TarnatinoFanthat means he has "launched" something else...something to slow us all down even further......or perhaps the Princess is in the Tower....waiting to be rescued ROFLMBO

Fencer: Here as well. After 10am already.

So still no hints on what it is exactly?

TarantinoFan: It's been added a month ago. And never used.
Btw, it's already 2008 here.

Things I found this morning that I hadn't noticed before.

General settings page. "Send me an occasional Brainking Newsletter" already checked by default.

Calendar page. A link to the "User Agreement"

Could either one of these possibly be "IT"?

What would the chances be of having a "no right click" on peoples pics that are posted here....there are idiots that save these pics and use them to post to other sites without the permission of the person whose pics they are.
Or better still....BAN the person/persons concerned, who are posting the pics.
I know the right click thing wouldnt solve it completey but it would help to a certain degree

Andersp: comcast works pretty good , in the phila area,Bk has its problems as you know, but not that bad in my opinion, even using wifi earthlink in philly, BK still works ok, not perfect mind you, but ok by me

MadMonkey: Thank you

emmett: Well i have done them on boards so i guess it is the same

Find the YouTube video you want, to the right you will see where is says Embed.
Under that is a Link, just copy and Paste that to where you want to show it

I can't find the old entry where it is explained how to add a YouTube video to one's Profile. I've heard that one must use the code from the embed field. I don't know what that means. If anyone has time, can someone please explain how to do this?

redfrog: You need to tell us which Internet Provider you are using so we all can enjoy the same problem free Brain King as you do!!

redfrog: Well if it is a problem somewhere between BK and user, it makes sense that a page with less information will take less time to transmit then a larger page with more information. (yea, normally with good connection you are talking about fractions of a second worth of extra data - but when there is a slow connection, you could be talking seconds per page saved - which when you have to load many pages right after one another, that can add up to a lot of saved time... and in turn, will give the users even a better illusion that the site is running faster.)

coan.net: I havent been having any problems either - so again it seems odd that we automatically assume is a BK issue when not everyone is experiencing trouble - but i do have to agree that a simplified version of the site would be a nice addition to the growing list of cool features on this site... and btw - im happy to see people using this board to voice concerns without rudeness - and for the most part without sarcasm!! How refreshing....

Careful guys!!!...telling the truth = negativism

he said. It.